Effect of chronic venous insufficiency on activities of daily living and quality of life: Correlation of demographic factors with duplex ultrasonography findings

Angiology

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 440-449

  Chiesa, Roberto ^a   Marone, Enrico Maria ^a   Limoni, Costanzo ^b   Volonté, Marina ^c   Schaefer, Eckhard ^d   Petrini, Orlando ^d  

^a VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS OF SOUTHERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^c Boehringer Ingelheim Italia SpA   (Italy)

^d BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM PHARMA GMBH AND CO KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERTIZING; AGE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC VEIN INSUFFICIENCY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEAT SENSATION; HUMAN; ITALY; LEG; LEG SWELLING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREGNANCY; PUBLICATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TELEVISION; URBAN AREA; VENOUS REFLUX;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 34548132095     PISSN: 00033197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0003319706292012     Document Type: Article

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